Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-06-25
The Old.Fashicned Fire.

forces and strengthen dormant facul-
ties like the sun bath. The suns most
efficient representative is the wood fire
on the hearth. This supplies general
warmth; its cheerful glow is q house
hold delight, nevertheless it is nearly
banished by coal stoves, furnaces,
steam, and sundry other devices
greatly to the injury of the health of
the people. Medical experts attribute
the growing tendency to pneumonia,
consumption, and other pulmonary dis
eases to modern methods of warming
houses This must be 80 If bad air
breeds consumption and pure air cures
it. There is pressing necessity in
our houses for good ventilation. The
air of rooms is contaminated by poison
Gus exhalations from living bodies and
in many other ways A lamp with q
large burner will consume one-third of
the oxygen of seventy cubic feet of air
in an hour. The air we have breathed
has lost its vital principle and 81 ould
be passed away Immediately; there is
no other SO good way of doing it as by
the open fireplace and the wood fire,
though coal in an open CRATE does very
we'll With light, dry, fine wood much
heat goes up the chimney with the
blaze. Maple, hickory, and other solid
woods send the heat more into the
room. With thick walls, double win.
dows and no excess of cracks we can
sufficiently heat houses with the open
fire.
The air should be admitted at the
top of the room, so it will descend and
take the impure air to the fire and not
to the floor to cool our feet. The open
fire does no damage to the air of the
room, but purifies it by securing the
best possible ventilation. Stoves and
furnaces warm us mainly by first warm
ing the air, but heat radiated from the
open fire falls directly on bodies ex-
posed to its influence, warming them
as the sun warns the pavement, which
is several degrees warmer than the air
just above it. This method of warm
ing US without raising the temperature
of the room very high is very advan-
tageous Fatal consequences follow
from going from hot rooms to the cold
air outside. Speaking of this an emf
nent writer says: "At step, literally
in breath, the temperature of the air
has for us dropped SO or 70 degrees.
We may put on an extra coat or shawl
and shield the outside of the body and
chest, but we cannot shield the delicate
Innings and membranes of the air pas
sages, the bronchial tubes, the lung
cells" This writer insists that "open
fires, warming the body directly by
radiant heat" without raising the
temperature of the room very high,
are greatly to be preferred. Coal stoves
and furnaces save money and sacrifice |
life and health; such economy is de-
plorable waste! The trees needed to
moderate the climate if properly cared
for could furnish abundant fuel for the
fres.-Hu0h T. Brooks.
The interesting discussion now going
on as to the identity of the P. s. Ney,
who taught schools in the Carolinas
and Virginia half century ago with
the celebrated Marshal Ney, of France,
who according to history, was executed
in Luxembourg Garden, December Z,
1915, revives recollections of the pleas
ant fiction which ran through the
pages of Pa1t,eam's Monthly some
thirty years ago or more, in which it
was sought to identify the Rev. Eleazer
Williams with the lost Bourbon, Louis
XVII. The discussion was an ingen-
ious one, bus hardly more so that the
present effort to make it appear that
Marshal Ney, instead of being shot.
escaped to this country and became a
Southern pedagogue. Right at this
point, however, there is missing link
of vital consequence. History tells us
that Marshal Ney was an l1literate man.
At best he received only scanty edu-
cation, which ended when he was II |
years of age. At 18 he entered the
army and began the career of soldier,
which was only terminated by death. |
He had no opportunities to study any
lessons except the stern ones of battle. |
Even if the statement be correct, that |
he came to this country in 1916, the
year after history says he was shot, he
had no time to perfect his education,
Tor according to the new history he was
;eaching Latin, Greek, and the higher
after he arrived here.
Men at the age of 80, without any pre-
nous acquaintance with dead languages
md mathematics, do not acquire them
n a year or two, and especially with
'uch proficiency as to teach them.
There can be no question that Marshal
Ney was an uneducated man, that all
he instruction he received-which was
# very crude kind-dates back of his
9TH year, and that from his 18th to his
9th year he was in continuous active
military service, with no opportunity to
tudy. It will now be necessary to
how that Marshal Ney was q fnely-ed-
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